Ana Johnsson

Ana Lovisa Johnsson (born October 4th, 1977 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Her longplay disc Cuz I Can appeared in April 2004 in Sweden. However, her worldwide debut The Way I Am was released some months later. She is sometimes known as Ana.

Ana was born in Gothenburg, Sweden to Rolph and Carina Johnsson but later moved to Sunne, a village in the province of VÃ¤rmland.

She became fed up of school and went to USA as an exchange student. She took up skiing as a hobby and now she is a semi-professional snowboard artist. She competed and travelled around the US and at one point, she came 5th and 6th in a championship in 1996. Eventually she came back to Sweden in 2001, finished high school and started working at various jobs.

She is fluent in 4 languages - Swedish, English, German and Norwegian.

Her singing talents started when she was a teenager and became a singer of coverband @groove and moved to Karlstad.

But her big break started when she heard about the first season of Popstars in Sweden and decided to give it a go. She succeeded in the final and Ana, Jenny Ka...